Blog
Filter By:
Advocacy • Analysis • Blog • Commentary • Drama • Essay • Event • Feature • Fiction • Graphic Narrative • Interview • Memoir • News • Obituary • Open Letter • Poetry • Press Release • Profile
Browse By Series:
PEN Poetry Series • Prison Writing • The PEN Ten Interviews • Illustrated PEN • Pen Pals • The PEN World
Browse By Email Subscription:
PEN America News • Educational Censorship News • Works of Justice
Irreparable Harm
The election of Bush was never the real problem. The assertion of power—in a matter in which the Court is morally and constitutionally precluded from playing any part—is. More
The Disappearance Approach
He was lying in his bed with his eyes closed. I knew when I saw him with the CPAP mask over his mouth and nose and heard the whooshing… More
Los Angeles Plays Itself
"As much as any city, Los Angeles is a work-in-progress, a landscape of fragments where the boundaries we take for granted in other environments are not always clear." More
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Between the World and Me. Read an excerpt of the book. More
The Seizure of a Book Review
The editor of Kitap Zamanı, which was shut down by the Turkish government earlier this month, reflects on the popular literary magazine's 10-year history and the future of press… More
Alvina Ling
*This roundtable is a part of PEN's new and ongoing initiative, The PEN Equity ProjectGO DIRECTLY TO THE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONINTRODUCTIONWhen I was a child, I read everything… More
Alvina Ling
*This roundtable is a part of PEN's new and ongoing initiative, The PEN Equity ProjectGO DIRECTLY TO THE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONINTRODUCTIONWhen I was a child, I read everything… More
Alvina Ling
*This roundtable is a part of PEN's new and ongoing initiative, The PEN Equity ProjectGO DIRECTLY TO THE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONINTRODUCTIONWhen I was a child, I read everything… More
Robie Harris
*This roundtable is a part of PEN's new and ongoing initiative, The PEN Equity ProjectGO DIRECTLY TO THE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONINTRODUCTION“Who am I?” “Who are you?” “Who are… More
Support for the freedom to read with exclusive designs by Todd Parr, Mike Curato, Art Spiegelman, and more!
